Example sentences of "[verb] he [pers pn] would [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 2 | I promised him I 'd pass it on to his relatives if I could find them , anyway keep it safe in case he managed to get out too . |
| 3 | They told him they would do it their way . |
| 4 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him I would ask you . ’ |
| 6 | I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did . |
| 7 | Assistant manager Eddie Stein , who had taken temporary control , said : ‘ The chairman did ask me how I felt about Barry possibly coming back earlier this week and I told him I 'd welcome him with open arms . |
| 8 | I told him you would think it was fun dear . |
| 9 | She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight . |
| 10 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 11 | The next time Eleanor rang him he would ask her to tea . |
| 12 | Did you , so you did n't tell him I 'd like him to see my paintings ? |
| 13 | If she agreed to marry him she would offer him what she could — affection , duty , loyalty — and he could decide whether it was enough . |
| 14 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ He was telling everyone that if his girlfriend ever left him he would kill her . |
| 16 | If she ever left him I 'd cut him completely adrift . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps that was because I 'd already warned him I 'd bop him on the nose if he tried it . |
| 18 | He said he he 'd do it . |
| 19 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |